Tuesday, July 22, 2008

if you think someone you know is more likely to show you some anonymous online love than the hundreds or thousands of malware purveyors who get paid for it then you might be a security idiot (and an egomaniac)...

Sunday, July 13, 2008

found at emergent chaos and it gives me the creeps just looking at it...

i think this underscores why it's important that more people start thinking intelligently about security... when there's only a select few doing it the chances of them getting it horribly wrong (as the TSA does) and going unchecked increase... this is probably not a real children's book but we live in a world where penguins are forced to walk through metal detectors so fictional or not this children's book idea isn't that far fetched, and that's actually pretty scary...

Saturday, July 5, 2008

having seen some of the other snuggly videos, i tend to think he's more of a political bear but this one in particular demonstrates the context sensitive nature of security, where "national security" comes at the expense of your own privacy/security... thus it's important that questions like "what security are we trying to improve" be asked...

i didn't realize that the deep inspection cartoon i posted before was going to be an ongoing thing when i originally posted it... i have no desire to steal david maynor's thunder so i won't continue republishing his work here but i still think they teach lessons while being funny at the same time so i still want to promote that content... republishing makes sense for a one-off or as an introduction; actually it makes sense for everything when it comes to memes, but not everyone likes their content to be copied so for serials like this i think i'm going to need a links section to point to other people's ongoing work where that work furthers (intentionally or not) some of the same goals this site does...

Thursday, July 3, 2008

if people get caught with their pants around their ankles, driving the wrong way down a one way street while watching kiddie porn they downloaded using your wireless internet access, you might be a security idiot...

trying not to be a one trick pony here so it's time i introduced another possible meme...

this is another humour based meme but instead of showing screen shots it's pretty much entirely verbal, which makes it something that people can repeat to each other and in that sense at least makes it superior to LOLThreats (since replication of the meme is not technology dependent)...

i actually got the idea originally upon reading a blog post by michael farnum... i thought the concept of "you might need to think about security if" would make a great play on jeff foxworthy's shtick about "you might be a redneck if"...

i was never totally satisfied with "you might need to think about security", though - it was a little unwieldy and i tried to come up with some variant that fit better but i never did... thankfully anton chuvakin came up with something better (or i might have settled on "security redneck" which would have been bizarre) - "security idiot" rolls off the tongue much easier (though it does sound a bit like a green day song - 'don't wanna be a security idiot' - hmmm, i wonder)...